Monarchs Retired from Business, Volum 1

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R. Bentley, 1857
 

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Pàgina 70 - Here's an acre sown indeed With the richest royallest seed That the earth did e'er suck in Since the first man died for sin : Here the bones of birth have cried ' Though gods they were, as men they died...
Pàgina 150 - The sansculottes took out the body, which had been embalmed. There was a strong smell of vinegar and camphor. The corpse was beautiful and perfect; the hands and nails were very fine; I moved and bent every finger. I never saw so fine a set of teeth in my life. A young lady, a...
Pàgina 217 - THE LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; 2 Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion; 3 Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
Pàgina 245 - Near this place is interred Theodore, King of Corsica, Who died in this parish Dec. 11, 1756, Immediately after leaving the King's Bench Prison, By the benefit of the Act of Insolvency, In consequence of which he registered His Kingdom of Corsica For the use of his Creditors.
Pàgina 340 - A grenadier in the Bavarian war said of him : " Why should I complain of dangers, when I see the crown of my sovereign as much exposed as my own cap ?" Joseph said of himself, in the epitaph he wrote for his own grave : " Here lies a sovereign, who, with the best intentions, never carried a project into execution.
Pàgina 31 - As ever tried th' extent and stretch of grace; God's pamper'd people, whom, debauch'd with ease, No king could govern, nor no God could please; (Gods they had...
Pàgina 178 - Some thought to raise themselves to high degree By riches and unrighteous reward; Some by close shouldring, some by flatteree; Others through friendes, others for base regard; And all by wrong waies for themselves prepard.
Pàgina 258 - Not to be forfeited in battle. If he that in the field is slain Be in the bed of honour lain, He that is beaten may be said To lie in Honour's truckle-bed. 1050 For as we see th...
Pàgina 35 - Save that the high places were not removed : the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places. 5 And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house.
Pàgina 246 - Immediately after leaving the King's Bench Prison, By the benefit of the Act of Insolvency, In consequence of which he registered His Kingdom of Corsica For the use of his Creditors. The Grave, great teacher, to a level brings Heroes and beggars, galley-slaves and kings. But Theodore this lesson learn' d, ere dead ; Fate pour"d its lessons on his living head, Bestow'da kingdom and denied him bread.

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